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I stick my neck out here to say that this minister not impartial and really think that all other 50K prisoners needing medical care get the same treatments Thaksin get i.e personal care and attention, private rooms and prolong stay at the hospital...

Probably many will google 'best life quotes' and copy- paste here...

Yeah rad about it few days ago and thought to myself how sick in their heads can people be? beyond words really...

This topic been done to death already.. with the same results...

Why are they still referring to him by his full name rank and his nickname"big Joke" over and over again? by now, every person in Thailand knows very well who is Police Lieutenant General Surachate and Big Joke, and that both names refer to the same person...

I'm reading this and i can't believe what i'm reading that there are actually such dumb, Nay, beyond dumb, that can fall for such very embarrassing and easy catfishing, small amount of money i can understand, but those numbers?

I would have loved to be her jailer, i promise to be very tough with her...

I'll tell ya, some of the posts here defies logic and commonsense...

The well known proverb 'the shoe on the other foot' pops to minds...

Hence the investigation and guilty verdict, the man thought he can fool all the people all the time...

Not surprising, in a country with so many motorcycles on the road, it bound to have accidents and a fatal ones at that...

Air Asia, a fly by night airline, cancelling flights on you and instead a refund giving you credit ( big amount too) to a route they don't fly there any longer, and try to talk to anyone there, no phone, no email no humans, only a bot...

truer words were never spoken... in Thailand, if you're a good man, you're too soft not doing your job, too hard and famous, you're a crook on the take...

I don't know about you lot but i'm being addressed as ' metter, metter' omitting the s... i find it kind of funny, but than again, i have been here so long i have seen and heard almost everything Thailand has to offer...

It is very hard and very unlikely that a police general in Thailand involving himself with so many facets of the Thai justice will be a 100% without a fault even if he wanted to, the question is, how deep or how far his nefarious dealing went, i personally think that he's as good as they come and the best Thailand can hope for in a police general...

I mean really, did anyone who's living and breathing in this country expected any OTHER out come? it was a foregone conclusion from the moment he set foot in this country and EVERYTHING is going according to plans...

Yes it did rained heavily for about an hour or so but nothing to compare to rains in CM and in the north where it rains all day...

It would be fair to assume that more than few of the Thai 'tourists' will abuse their say to find employment and stay a lot longer than what they're allowed to...

He must be doing too good a job or stepping on someone's toes to be enough of a threat to invoke this reaction from someone who is even more powerful than him..very interesting...

The only other way would to pay a local agent the 12,000 or so baht to do your yearly retirement renewal while keeping your money in the UK bank earning much more than the agent fees...

I don't think that even Thaksin himself doesn't believe how stupid and gullible the Thai people are and how so easy was to pull the wool over their collective eyes...

With 237 posts telling that this topic and similar have been discussed several times with few possibilities of the why and how come, bottom line, no clear answer yet...

"Opinion: Making me pay tax is fine but where does it go?" this article must have written in jest, do we know where all the other taxes, dues and payments we pay goes to that the article asks this question?

Is this what a would be ex pats be interested in when considering moving to Thailand? cheaper entrance fees to parks? there are dozens of way to make an expat life easier with all the red tapes and myriad of documentations every time you have to renew/extend a permit of the dozens of permits out there?

An Alpine mountaineer's boots with those long spikes in the soles would probably solves your problem...